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About - Anthony Buccino
Writer/editor/web designer Anthony Buccino has written three books of essays based in and around Nutley and Belleville, N.J., where he has lived for the past five decades. The Belleville Sons Honor Roll is his most recent project. With the help of his daughter Andrea, he simultaneously completed a similar research project for the men from Nutley who died in service to their country. In the 1970s he wrote reviews and essays for area newspapers, including The Belleville Times and The Independent Press of Bloomfield. From 1989 to 1990, he was editor of The Belleville Times. From 1996 to 1998, he was managing editor at Worrall Community Newspapers, where he oversaw the Nutley Journal and Belleville Post and two other newspapers. Buccino's most recent essay collection is Rambling Round-Inside and Outside at the Same Time. Rambling Round's more than five dozen casual essays trigger memories as do the mere mention of PF Fliers, the Garden State Parkway, Jerry The Ice Cream Man, school cafeteria lunches, high school football game pretzels, the freshman play ... and much more. Buccino published two other collections of essays and stories: A Father's Place, An Eclectic Collection, in 1991, and Sister Dressed Me Funny, in 1996. A volume of poetry, Days You Knew Me, was published in 1976. It is safely out of print. More than once, Buccino has been compared to National Public Radio celebrity and popular novelist Garrison Keillor, also to humor writer Dave Barry. It has been said you can find Buccino's books alongside the likes of Russell Baker - also from Belleville - Erma Bombeck and Dave Barry. They were talking alphabetically, as in the Belleville Public Library and Information Center. Buccino has embarked on a return to his lighter-side writing in a new project of remembrance essays, beginning with junior high school. Last Lap to Fifty is expected to be a four-volume series. He has been published in New Jersey Monthly, the Wall Street Journal,
the Passaic Herald News, New Jersey Federated Sportsmen, Italian
Tribune and Behind The Lines, and other publications.
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